Taco writer detained–briefly–by feds

(bigbendsentinel.com)

44 points | by reaperducer 2 hours ago ago

19 comments

  • colejhudson 2 hours ago ago

    Dispatches from the nascent American panopticon.

    From the path taken [0] in the original article [1], it would appear that these folks passed through roughly 8 (known) license plate readers [2].

    [0]: https://maps.app.goo.gl/kM9j79gWyNHsVVt48

    [1]: https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/taco-editor-stopped-by-ice...

    [2]: https://deflock.me/map#map=8/29.480252/-101.513672

  • wolfi1 2 hours ago ago

    I do have to admit that I associated "Taco writer" with something completely else

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  • cgio 2 hours ago ago

    Maybe similar to the imperceptibility of using the name of a famous bear in a certain country, there is an upcoming imperceptibility of using the name of a certain dish in another.

  • cassepipe an hour ago ago

    Read the article, still don't know what a Taco editor/writer is supposed to be

  • hoten 2 hours ago ago

    Is Flock used in that area?

  • cyanydeez 2 hours ago ago

    First they came for the Taco trucks, and I said nothing, for I liked burritos.

  • linkage 2 hours ago ago

    > He wondered if his brown skin was part of the equation.

    > Bravo noted that all of the law enforcement officers that day were Hispanic.

    It's called "we do a little bit of concern trolling".

    • nemomarx 2 hours ago ago

      How do those relate? If the agency has been told to look at specific types of people to check for their papers, does it matter the race of the enforcers?

      • linkage 2 hours ago ago

        That was my intended point. He admitted that the law enforcement officers were all Hispanic yet he still felt compelled to slyly slip in the race card.

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        • refulgentis 2 hours ago ago

          Your reaction is fascinating. What do you mean by play the race card? Kavanaugh stops are law of the land.

        • yunohn 2 hours ago ago

          Maybe you’ve missed the news, but even ICE is not full of only white officers, lots of people of color in there too.

          • shadowgovt 2 hours ago ago

            There also seems to be the assumption that people of a particular race can't be racist against members of the same race.

            "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is an old story by now, and "One of the good ones" an old meme.

            • yunohn an hour ago ago

              The author did not make such a statement, rather (it appears to me), that they were surprised instead by the lack of empathy exhibited by said similar-origin agents. A feeling that is shared by a lot of people who are opposed to the inhumane brutality being meted out, without repercussions, by ICE agents.

            • cyanydeez an hour ago ago

              the correct concept of racism is: Bigotry + Power. So you give anyone power and suddenly their view on race matters.

              The homeless black guy hating white people? What does that matter, he cant go shoot them in the back.

              • linkage an hour ago ago

                He can threaten to kill pregnant women on public transit with impunity until a based hero named Daniel Penny does society a favour. And then self-hating white people try to prosecute the hero because they cling to patently false narratives of "systemic racism", probably because it has now become their group identity.

        • tristor 2 hours ago ago

          It's relevant, because border patrol on the Southern border is heavily staffed by Hispanic officers, in part because they need officers that are bilingual as most immigration happening on the Southern border is from Spanish-speaking countries. But these same officers as a matter of policy are told to racially profile and target vehicles with Hispanic occupants. Power structures need the complicity of at least some defectors from the targeted group to be effective.

          Further, within racial groups colorism is also a thing and can result in behaviors that seem incongruent. I've heard some of my in-laws say things like "I'm Mexican, but I'm not Mexican Mexican." It's not something people want to think about or admit, but racial identity is not a bloc, and these types of colorist attitudes can contribute to why folks may defect against their racial group to side with power structures.

          Living in South Texas, I see a lot of shit, and what was said in the article neither surprised me nor seemed like a detail meant to evoke a race card. If anything it was pointing out that the officers pitted against the writer should theoretically had some empathy rather than acting out racial profiling. The truth is, that racial profiling happens a lot and sometimes the people doing it are of the same race as those being profiled.

        • cyanydeez an hour ago ago

          I think people really misunderstand what racism is, and how Trump used the delusion of racists to make them all think they were gonna get "their" racism satisfied, when in fact, he was only refering to his and his staffs racism, which is mostly the same as Nazis.

          The fact that he was hispanic is in fact why he was harassed. The fact that some hispanics align with racism in the duty of Trump isn't confusing when you understand they might've thought he was venezualan while they're all cuban or whatever. They might have easily be enforcing their brand of racism.

          The reason thinks like "LatinX" were rejected by latinos wasn't cause they hated liberals, it was because most of the south/central Americans have their own ethnographic racisms, and Trump tapped into that by essentially convincing them that he'd go after the "illegal" ones, and all the racists replaced illegal with whatever ethnographic/nationalist they hated.

          So after all that, I assum you have no idea why hispanics deputized with federal power would pick on other hispanics, do you? Cause what you're demonstrating is the nazi POV of racism.